Friday, December 19, 2008

Gunshots in the night.

Well, yesterday was one heck of a day. It was so full-on, that I wanted to use a much stronger word than just "heck"... but hey, I'm trying to be polite and protect y'all from my bad language.

The kids started arriving at 7 am and by 9 o'clock I had 7 of the little darlin's. Which is usually no problem, but yesterday was just a madhouse with a lot of various things goin' on. While I was dealing with a couple of other grown-ups late in the day, ( yes, I got to talk to real life, non-drooling grown-ups for a change) the little natives were getting restless... and y'all know that the best way to soothe the savage beasts is with balloons. No matter how cranky or how tired a child is, give 'em a balloon or two, and peace reigns.
If only for a few minutes.
If they start getting bored again, just blow up a different colored balloon and they think it's the best balloon yet... and the peace and giggles are just magical.

So by the time the munchkins all left at almost 7 last night, I was knee deep in balloons. 100 balloons in the packet and there were only a few left. I'm surprised that I had any air left in me.

And man, was I tired. Bone-achingly, it's hard to put one foot in front of another, tired. With a capital T.
I made myself a quick sandwich for my dinner, only ate half of it because I was too tired to chew, because even my teeth were exhausted... then I herded all those dozens upon dozens of balloons into a corner ...and hit the hay by 9 o'clock.

And got woken up at 11, by gunshots. Gunshots. Clear as day. And you know what? I was so stinkin' tired that I just sort of shrugged and went right back to la-la-land. I obviously hadn't been shot, had I? So I just went right back to sleep. Because man, I was tired.

And woke an hour later to more gunshots.
And then a couple of more.

Well, if someone was shooting at me, they were pretty obviously bad shots... and if they were just shooting up the neighborhood, I guess I would hear about it in the morning... so why worry, eh? ( now, this is a really quiet neighborhood and nothing ever happens here, let alone bad stuff, but when you're too exhausted to think straight, nuthin' makes any sense and anything can seem likely.)
So back to la-la-land I went.
And slept until almost 7 this morning.

It was daylight when I got out of bed, which is a very rare occurrence. I usually get up around 5 and it's always dark enough to need the lights turned on, to save me walkin' into something and killing my toes on the way to the bathroom.
So, the fact that it was daylight, well... it made the gunshots seem like less of a worry.
And the fact that I hadn't heard police car or ambulance sirens in the night... at least nobody had been killed. Maybe.
But I had better go check that all was safe and see how the neighbors had fared.
Because I may have been too tired to care during the night, but reality really hit once I was completely awake.

And then I came into the kitchen.

Remember those balloons? Well, the kittens must have thought it was party-hearty time last night. Because every single one of those balloons had been popped and there were (and still are, because I'm a lazy cow) remnants of balloons everywhere. On the floor. On the table. On the sofa... and even on the counter tops. In their food dishes and water dish. There was even one hanging off the handle of my coffee cup.

And the cats? Well, they were all sleeping like furry little angels. Like they had rid the whole world of fat, round, evil colored invaders... and were having a much needed rest after their " My, it's such a tough job, but somebody had do it", labors.
They did an excellent job of keeping our little house safe in the night.

God Bless 'em.

9 comments:

Kim @ Forever Wherever said...

Oh my gosh! How funny! One time I was sleeping in a motorhome and the whole thing was shaking and I thought it was a tornado. There was nothing we could do and we were exhausted from driving...so I just thought "Oh well, if it's my time to go...." and went back to sleep! It was crazy, but when you're tired, you're tired!

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Sherri said...

hahaha how funny, my cats would of left them alone at the popping of the first balloon. You'll probably be finding little pieces of balloons in cracks and corners for a few weeks...hahaha

Anonymous said...

That's hilarious! I never figured it out, so I am laughing so hard right now! Those funny cats!

This was a good one! :)

Narelle said...

hehehehehehehehe
thanks for the good laugh today :)

Michaela Dunn Leeper said...

Oh how funny! I love reading your take on things!

Tania said...

Oh how funny.

I was sitting here reading through this post wondering what the shots were and who had been injured through the night. I was expecting the worst but it wasn't that at all!

I hope you are fully rested now before the next round of kids.

Thanks for the laugh Tatersmama, I have had a busy day cooking.

Tania

Andrea said...

I bet those kittens had such a great time! Thanks for the laugh!! :)

pam said...

How lucky you are to have such hard-working kitty cats!

Kurichan said...

just catching up on your blog...and all I have to say about this post is HAH HAH HAH HAH HAH HAH HAH!!!!!!!!!!


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